Lacey Donohue

A&E—a network that loves to admonish
and play dumb after making gobs of money off well-known racists and homophobes—will
be busy admonishing and playing dumb again today. All thanks to this newly emerged video
of Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil
Robertson delivering an impassioned speech against the "gross sexual immorality"
of "women with women" and "men with men."

Uploaded to YouTube
in March 2013 by a Texas woman with nothing but "Love" for Robertson, the lengthy
video showcases the duck caller's impassioned feelings about "shameful lust"
in America (go to 17:15 in the video for the highlights):

"Women with women. Men with men. They committed indecent acts
with one another. And they received in themselves the due penalty for their
perversion. They're full of murder, envy, strife, hatred. They are insolent,
arrogant, god haters, they are heartless, they are faithless, they are
senseless, they are ruthless, they invent ways of doing evil!

That's what you
have 235 years, roughly, after your forefathers founded the country. So what
are you going to do, Pennsylvania? Just run with them? You're going to die. Don't
forget that."

If you can stomach the entire video, the beginning of the sermon also does some really interesting cultural work by putting God, the Constitution, and
fried chicken into conversation with each other.

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"We still do not stand for this behavior," A&E will say
again today, and yet, of course they will. They've done it before. They didn't
stand for Duane Chapman's racism when they halted
production on Dog the Bounty Hunter
in 2007, only to reinstate
the show three months later. Because if it looks like a racist, sounds like
a homophobe, and makes A&E lots of money, don't worry: it'll be back.